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What is a manciple?

What is a manciple? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A person in charge of purchasing and storing food and other provisions in a monastery, college, or court of law.
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The satire was too much for the Cook, who became excited, and fell from his horse in his attempts to oppose the manciple.
One of Chaucer's pilgrims is a manciple of the Temple, of whom he gives a good character for his skill in purveying.
Despite his lack of education, this Manciple is smarter than the thirty lawyers he feeds.
A manciple was in charge of getting provisions for a college or court.
Extra food obtained from the manciple to be eaten in private was called Battels.
The Clerk, the Cook, the Parson and the Manciple are all part of which literary work?

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